AD's

[Thumper]

Have you ever had an accidental discharge?

I've had two in handling firearms every day for over 55yrs.

1st one was rattlesnake and varmint hunting all night SW of Uvalde TX. About 4:3oam I got sleepy and laid down in the front seat of the truck. Barrel down safety on I stood a Ruger 10/22 up against the dashboard and passenger door corner. Moving around to get comfortable in my sleep it fell over and hit me in the head, when I grabbed it to stand it back up it fired putting a clean hole in the floor of my truck. 1985

2nd one was unloading a Remington 700 again at about 0500hrs after hunting all night. Older model 700 where the bolt would not open unless the safety was off. Pushed the safety off and it fired hitting the top of my boot. Luckily by happenstance I was wearing thick industrial rubber boots with a 5/16" steel toe. Bullet was deflected, but not before crushing by right big toe. Factory trigger had been adjusted by previous owner to 2lbs. Gunsmith said that usually not a problem unless in cold weather, temperature that morning was 24°. 1993

[Bowhunter4l1fe]

Thank goodness no. But your stories are certainly a great reminder that we can make deadly mistakes when we are tired...

[Coach W]

Sounds like you only had 1.

[Brockles5211]

Yes I have in the 25 year since I have been handling firearms on my own. I was cleaning my 1st AR i got about a month ago and after putting everything back together I wanted to make sure everything was good to go. I was standing in my closet inserted the mag, felt the safety with my finger (felt it in the vertical position and should have know it was off), pulled back the charging handle and somehow my finger was on the trigger.....still not sure how. Bang gun goes off and there is a hole in the ceiling of my closet.......I'm standing there stunned and bewildered at how this could have happened when my wife and kids come running in tears running down my wife's face. Only time that has ever happened to me and hopefully will be the last ever. I learned that day to always visually inspect the safety and never just feel for it. Scared me half to death and looking at my wife and kids thinking I was dead was the worst part.

[trophy8]

Very few are accidental. Negligent discharge is a better phrase for most. You had one of each lol. I bet that AD hurt bad though lol

[Coach W]

An accidental discharge is what you experienced with the rem 700... you turned the safety off and it fired = Accident.... If you turned the safety off and your finger was on the trigger then that's negligence.

The 10/22 scenario you speak of is negligence. You pulled the trigger when you weren't planning to... that's no accident the gun went off like its supposed to, when the trigger is pulled.

Im not above it, I've had my share of negligent discharges... but we need to own up to them and learn from them or they will happen again.

[Stoof]

I put a .22 through my wall of the garage into the back of a book shelf in the living room. Negligent is the correct word for my case. I dropped the hammer assuming the gun was not loaded. I had not touched this pistol in over 5 years, so why should it have been loaded? Well it was a sobering reminder that that every gun is to be considered loaded until visually inspected. I sometimes lay in bed at night and ponder my own idiocy in that moment. Check, re-check and check again is my motto since that day.

[DRT]

I've had one of each. A model 70 with the trigger adjusted too light on a cold day in Colorado with an elk in front of me. The other was when I figured out that I needed to get the loss of sensitivity in my hands checked. I wasn't ready when the gun went off and it wasn't pointed in the direction I needed it to be for the shot. I was a little shocked to find out I had only 30% to 40% of the feeling in my fingers left. Now I know that I'm not just super strong when I crush those flimsy plastic QT cups. I just can't tell how much grip I'm applying by feel.

On the serious side, it was very embarrassing and a humbling lesson for someone who thought he had things under control. I should not have had my finger near the trigger until it the gun was on target.

[tx10pt]

Back in 88 we were hunting in Uvalde, checking hog traps and we see an axis we wanted for meat. I got out of the jeep leaned across the hood shot and missed the dang thing. Went to chamber another round and the gun goes off. Luckily I had it pointing in the right direction. I was using a friends gun that had a very light trigger and hand reloads. My finger was no where the trigger when it went off. Scared the crap out of me!

Then I have seen a few negligence happen too.

[Thumper]

One of each then. I wasn't near the trigger on the 700, and yes it hurt.

[Patton]

In Dryden, TX a man was wearing a .44 revolver on his hip. My friend's brother asks to see it, "Sure, why not"

He had the gun laying flat in his hand, but I didn't like the direction it was pointing. Barrel was pointed almost directly at me, he wasn't gripping the gun but I made a quick hop out of the way. Kind of trying to make a scene to show him he just pointed that at me.

About 3 seconds later he pulled the trigger, and I'd bet money it would have gone in the right side of my chest and blown out the left side.

With a look of shock on his face, "I didn't think it was loaded!" C'mon dumb ***, we had been quail hunting all day and the gun had been on his hip all day. I doubt he was carrying it around as a paper weight with no bullets.

It was a very sobering moment and I was pretty ****** about it. Somehow it didn't hit any of the trucks or the cabin that were all downrange.

I still get mad about it just thinking about it. The kid (24 yr. old) had hunted and handled guns his whole life, but was part of the San Antonio Lucky Sperm club and really wouldn't be a hunter if it wasn't for his dad.

[Tuffbroadhead]

I refuse to call them AD's....there is NOTHING accidental about one...it is NEGLEGENCE plain and simple..

Closet I have ever came to one.....had a brushfire going and tossed a old dresser into the fire...had a handful of 22lr in a drawer I guess..

Not good for me, round entered just above the right kneecap...HURT, but after a few beers and a set of hemostats from a med kit I was able to dig it out..

[DRT]

Not quite the same but painful I'm sure. Smacked a .22LR with a hammer once on a splitting block. The bullet was still on the block but a large part of the brass was buried in my skin and sternum. I was way too young for the "hold my beer, watch this" problem. But don't double dog dare me on anything.

[rossivey]

Had my rifle in my truck with the barrel pointed towards the floor board. I'd just shot a hog and didn't put the safety back on. I got out of my truck and went to grab the rifle and grabbed it with my thumb through the trigger guard and pulled the trigger. Still have a hole in my floor board and have no clue how it didn't hit anything under the hood.

My heart stopped when that rifle went off.

[mmoses]

I refuse to call them AD's....there is NOTHING accidental about one...it is NEGLEGENCE plain and simple..

Closet I have ever came to one.....had a brushfire going and tossed a old dresser into the fire...had a handful of 22lr in a drawer I guess..

Not good for me, round entered just above the right kneecap...HURT, but after a few beers and a set of hemostats from a med kit I was able to dig it out..

I agree negligence discharge, not accidental discharge.

The round stuck in your leg? that is kinda unusual. The brass is normally what goes flying.